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  • 27 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

Harvard Business School spends a significant amount of research funds each year on the health care industry, answering questions such as: How can the business of health care be made more efficient? What can a business do to motivate View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • March 2011
  • Article

Meeting the Challenges of a Person-Centric Work Psychology

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
In this article, the authors discuss person-centric work psychology, a paradigm developed by H. M. Weiss and D. E. Rupp regarding daily work life psychology. They cited three challenges of the paradigm such as the collection, and analysis of data, the certainty of the... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Social Psychology; Emotions; Perception; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting (Working Paper) A working paper made the Top 10! For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for improving employee View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Setting Published: February 11, 2009 For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for improving employee motivation and performance in organizations. Advocates of goal setting argue that for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Benefits & Compensation | Research Associates

healthcare options and paid vacation, Harvard is home to a community of enthusiastic and motivated individuals who believe in what they do. Being a Harvard employee means you also gain access to advantages... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Noted & Quoted

feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction, and challenge of the work itself and not by external pressures.” — Professor Teresa Amabile, cited in an article noting that her research shows carrots and sticks don’t... View Details
  • Web

Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

directly aligns with healthcare professionals’ collective goals and individual purposes. Appealing to employees’ motivations enables leaders to help team members unite under a common goal. By extension, setting the stage for View Details
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Star Search

function of having an engaged and motivated workforce. So how do you keep talent engaged and motivated? There is a table stakes component that I believe is compensation related, and we obviously try to benchmark and maintain that. But... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

into a very powerful motivating force. In a tough economic environment, when there is little money for bonuses and a lot of concern about layoffs, Katzenbach says it becomes even more important to communicate with View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Short Takes

positive motivational value, how employees at lower levels viewed the fairness of incentive plans, and whether incentives had an effect on corporate performance. The results were surprising. Most noteworthy:... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

savings plans made people less likely to save for retirement. Instead of being motivated by their peers’ admirable investment activity, they were demoralized. As writer Christian Camerota explains in an article about the research:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Profile

Shaila Ittycheria

answers for urgent business issues, she also found a deeper perspective on the meaning of leadership that she had not anticipated. A particular Leadership and Corporate Accountability class stands out for her, when Shaila and her classmates discussed a case in which an... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2019
  • News

Balancing Act

successor and two years later, after Tutor.com had merged with The Princeton Review, she became CEO of the combined company. For Eberle Walker, being in charge came with the responsibility of fostering other women, starting with her executive team. The first step was... View Details
Keywords: April White; Educational Services
  • 12 Mar 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

shareholder value is created. Every company should start with a clear purpose and set of values that go beyond making money. It is the purpose and values that motivate and unify employees worldwide, not... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Banking
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

understand differences among the groups and find ways to appeal to a broader set of employees and customers," according to HBS professor David A. Thomas. Since then, the number of female executives in the company has grown by 370... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Making the Case for Leadership

programming vision, to recruiting and motivating a growing team of employees (some of whom, like Swan, were commuting from other cities at the time). Also in play: managing a tight, closely watched budget... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • March 1999
  • Case

MotivAction plc (A)

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
The owner/manager of MotivAction is developing a package of incentives and bonuses that he hopes will stimulate sales growth, encourage development of new autonomous teams, and increase profitability. If they are adopted, these new incentives will replace others... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Improvement; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Profit; Organizational Culture
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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

In Character: A Case Discussion Drama

What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing, Organizing & Motivating for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • August 2020
  • Article

Workplace Knowledge Flows

By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
We conducted a field experiment in a sales firm to test whether improving knowledge flows between coworkers affects productivity. Our design allows us to compare different management practices and to isolate whether frictions to knowledge transmission primarily reside... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Performance Productivity; Sales; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 23 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders

different than those President Lincoln faced, courageous leadership can take on many forms. Take inspiration from Koehn’s book to develop your own leadership style as a manager and motivate employees to take... View Details
Keywords: All Industries